Feb
Cancer cells absorbs sugars and since this is the case, is there anything in nature that sugarbased but deadly where as ingested by patient in controled dosages can destroy cancer cells but leave the host relatively unharmed?
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I dont think people with own fate will believe it can help.
It's polysaccharides which a report said they coated the cancerous cells and caused starving death while others convinced polysaccharides increased in NK cells destroying cancerous cells.
Both were correct, but I think the first one can explain why some survive cancers but some dont, because the beta link of polysaccharide chains are broken down. I have my own lab although I am not in the field and hopefully having my own fund sometime to do the test.
Polysaccharides have many forms in nature, but mushrooms shiitake, maitake expecially coriolus versicolor which have more reputation in the past.
http://www.thorne.com/media/mushroom_glu…
Get them at http://www.mushroomcompany.com/farms/ind…
need 6g PSK per 60Kg body a day or about 30g raw dried mushrooms up to 80g as need.
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I'm not tryng to be recalcitrant but…. most areas in your body will absorb sugars:Your stomach, your skin, heck even an enema with sugar in it will be absorbed by your colon/rectum. If there was a way to target a toxin to cancer cells, believe me, dedicated people are working on this project worldwide. The trick is, it is difficult to make something cancer-toxic and NOT body-toxic. For this reason most chemotherapy drugs are not well tolerated. Sorry I didn't really answer your initial question, but that's my take on it.
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All cells absorb sugar, it is the prefered energy source. Just about the only energy source for the brain. While your question is plausible, the answer is not that simple.
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james ….the question you are asking directs the topic towards the drug targetting,,,,, and it is very difficult to design such an agent which specifically targets the tumor…its true that the tumor will need more sugar (glucose) because the tumorous cells produce their energy by Glycolysis (which utilizes glucose as starting substance) and not by Kreb's cycle (as normal cells do…which requires pyruvate as starting material and not glucose)….the first question in your idea is of the side effects and second is the glucose requirement is intracellular so its difficult to direct the targetting intracellularly than its on the surface of the cell……hope this helps…..